The People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza, reiterated this Wednesday that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela does not recognize the pseudo fact-finding mission about human rights in the country, as “ideologized, that it invents reports from a distance in an unethical way.”
In this sense, through a message on his Twitter account @jaarreaza, he valued as extraordinary the response of the ambassador to the UN-Geneva, Héctor Constant Rosales, in the face of the oral update that the aforementioned mission made of its report, in the framework of the 46th session of the Human Rights Council of the United Nations.
Ante las falsedades de la supuesta Misión de Determinación de Hechos, nuestro Embajador ante el Consejo de Derechos Humanos da una extraordinaria respuesta.
— Jorge Arreaza M (@jaarreaza) March 10, 2021
Venezuela NO reconoce esa Misión ideologizada,que inventa informes a distancia de manera anti éticahttps://t.co/KOcwjUizhe
The Permanent Venezuelan Representative before the European headquarters of the UN denounced and categorically rejected, once again, “the perversion of mechanisms created with the sole purpose of attacking countries, with that manichean, inquisitive and arrogant logic that the empires use to classify those who please them and those who oppose them.”
Ambassador Constant Rosales referred to the oral update of the report as a media circus that aims to make human rights a weapon to continue attacking the name of Venezuela in the world.
Likewise, he denounced that the supposedly independent fact-finding mission about Venezuela once again presented false information, extremely politicized, biased and selective, without any balance, whose statements are based on invented or anonymous sources, and publications on social networks, which “constitutes an academic disgrace.” He added that its results are part of the multidimensional war that Venezuela is subjected to in order to erode its self-determination and sovereignty.
Similarly, he criticized that the aforementioned mission has squandered close to 3 million dollars and the mandate has been renewed for an additional 5.3 million dollars, “which means that this group, which has never set foot in Venezuela, has more than double the budget allocated to the Office of the High Commissioner for field work.”
The Bolivarian Government, through Minister Arreaza, signed on September 20, 2019 a memorandum of understanding with the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), represented by its head, Michelle Bachelet, on cooperation and technical assistance, which was renewed for another year on September 14, 2020 due to its satisfactory results, according to the express recognition of both parties.